last night my beloved cryx led by bastardy goreshade was facing damn cygnar (god, how I hate that fraction...
BATTLEFIELD:
Click to see full-sized imageas You can see all terrain features were concentrated on the table's center; 2 "forests" were providing lots of cover for nasty solos like pistol wraiths, eiryss etc
DEPLOYMENT:
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Click to see full-sized imageI beated Deco at deployment roll so I was fielding my troops first; most of models were hidden behind hill, caster and bloat thrall on the hill, deathjack (thanks to the advanced deployment) almost in the middle of the table;
the plan was straight: DJ gets into melee asap while remaining forces join it after round or two; goreshade was supposed to spam mageblight so there's no masty magic around
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Click to see full-sized imageDeco placed alexia and her necro-boyfriends on his right flank, finn in the forest on the right, eiryss in the left one and main forces, lancer, coleman, gunmage adept and heavy jack from the box - in front of deathjack; no idea what Deco's plan was - hope he'll reveal it
TURN #1
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Click to see full-sized imagewhooole speeeeed aheeead!
all cryxian forces advanced: necroburgers... eee... mechanithralls at maximum distance same as gorman, skarlock and necrotech;
pistol wraith moved into forest so bloat thrall can shoot it - there was tiny chance that scattering template hits eiryss but as we can see I didn't have that amount of luck this time
goreshade casted cloak of shadows and deathjack was trying to cast consumption on lancer but unfortunatelly the distance was too far
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Click to see full-sized imageDeco moved finn close on he position so he could gun-down bloat thrall, gorman and goreshade if I decided to cast sth else than cloak of shadows, alexia and risen also advanced at full speed;
eiryss... have I ever mentioned I hate her? once again she moved a bit and launched distruptor bolt: either cloud or elevated position didn't help deathjack - it was distrupted which means if I don't feed it with necroburger or grab with necrotech - my caster can find himself in a really deep sh!t next turn
cygnar jacks moved closer the hill and stryker did sth really mean:
he casted snipe on gun mage adept for 6 FOC increasing his range up to 18"!!!
adept used one of his super bullets and hit gorman at almost maximum range but fortunatelly inflicted only 2 DMG so my beloved solo was still alive!
TURN #2
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Click to see full-sized imagecryx time!
since finn became visible I decided to get rid of him using AOE weaponary I had: gorman's bombs and bloat thralls despoiler: both guys missed but despoiler's template was wide enough to hit finn: he lost 4 of 8 DMG boxes but it was still alive (booo! what a shame!
mechanithralls, necrotech and caster moved forward as far as it was possible - bastard casted consumption on lancer ripping it's left arm off and cloak of shadows again - there were too many snipers around for mageblight spam;
the time has come for the first dirty cryx gambit: deathjack ate one of mechanithralls and slammed cygnar heavy jack: boosted hit-roll guaranteed the success
there was only pistol wraith left to activate: I tried to injure enemy caster but managed to score only single hit... oh well...
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Click to see full-sized imagecygnar revenge!
finn was trying to take down gorman but thanks to increased DEF he missed; second goodie-goodie solo had much more luck: eiryss with no problems put fantom seeker between mechanithralls' liutenant orbits so I had one necrosandwitch less in my menu;
ironclad (I've just reminded the name! woo-hoo!
alexia was attempting to take control over mechanithralls but thank's toruk my unit was inch (YES! JUST A SINGLE INCH!!!) beyond the range
lancer charged necrotech** and spent 2 left FOC for additional attacks against the bastard! iirc my caster got 6 damages... ouch!
stryker moved behind ironclad, casted armour boost on himself and launched feat for getting even more ARM! after that he had 23 ARM value!!!
TURN #3
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Click to see full-sized imagefirst of all I wanted to solve finn-problem: gorman moved close enough to hit that solo with black oil grenade: no shooting, no running, decreased DEF and RAT etc: cygnar solo was harmless now;
bloat thrall shot at alexia: I had almost no chance to hit her BUT scattering shot could catch her or remove risen from play! unfortunatelly it scattered in totally wrong direction - looks like I fortune left me after saving gorman's ass twice
pistol wraith was trying to hit colman again but with no success but that wasn't important because there was a time for second dirty gambit this evening!
mechanithralls left forest moving as far as it was possible; avoiding freestrike goreshade left close combat to get into 6" from deathjack (spell range) and casted soulgate:
deathjack was teleported out of melee and replaced one of mechanithralls and because it has 5 FOC put on - charged enemy caster!
there's actually not much to say: 23 ARM couldn't protect mr stryker against 3 fist attacks: 2 of them had boosted hit and dagage rolls
the game was over***
*and wont spoil it until I face that b!tch!
**... and missed
***return match probably tonight






